Ruth Wodak
Ruth Wodak ( born July 12, 1950 in London) is an Austrian linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of Vienna and at Lancaster University. In addition to Norman Fairclough Wodak is one of the most prominent representatives of Critical Discourse Analysis.
Training
The daughter of diplomats visited Walter Wodak 1956-1959 the International School ( a primary school ) in Belgrade, in the former Yugoslavia. 1959/60 she attended the fourth grade of primary school in Vienna Albertgasse and then the high school in the Lange Gasse in Vienna from 1960 to 1968, where she passed the final exam with distinction. Afterwards she studied from 1968 to 1974 at the University of Vienna, the subjects Slavic, East European History and Linguistics.
In the period from 1971 to 1972, she worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Linguistics of the University of Vienna. In 1974, doctoral studies at the University of Vienna in Linguistics ( Promotio sub auspiciis Praesidentis rei publicae ) with a minor in Slavic Studies. Your sociolinguistic thesis was called " Sociolinguistic approaches to a theory of verbalization: The language behavior of defendants in court ", Vienna 1974.
Career
Between 1975 and 1983 Ruth Wodak worked as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Linguistics of the University of Vienna. In 1980, she completed her habilitation in applied linguistics, including socio-and psycholinguistics at the University of Vienna with the habilitation thesis " The word in the group. Linguistic studies of therapeutic communication ", Vienna 1980.
From 1983 to 1991 she worked as a professor of applied linguistics, including socio-and psycholinguistics at the Vienna Institute of Linguistics. In 1991 she was invited to the Linguistic Department of the University of Michigan as a "full professor ". She is since 1991 regular University Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Vienna. From October 1999 to October 2002, she held a research professorship at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, she is director of the Wittgenstein Research Focus "Discourse, Politics, Identity".
In the meantime, she also worked as a visiting professor at other universities, such as, inter alia, at the Collegium Budapest 2002 as a Permanent Fellow, 1999 as a visiting professor at the University of Georgetown, and in 2011 at the Karl Franzens University of Graz.